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In 2003, Steve Inskeep interviewed Liz Hughes of Resumania.com (All Things Considered, January 19, 2003) about a website calling itself "The Place for Real-Life Examples of How Not to Write a Resume" (<a href="http://www.resumania.com/">deck</a>, 2012.03.05)

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Susan Stamburg interviewed contributors to an anthology disseminated overseas by U.S. Department of State. "The anthology, aimed at promoting American values abroad, will be distributed free at U.S. embassies worldwide. An anti-propaganda law makes it illegal to disseminate the works in the United States..." (Morning Edition, December 16, 2002)

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"LitReactor has three goals. To become:

* A destination for writers to improve their craft.
* A haven for readers to geek out about books.
* And a platform to kickstart your writing goals."

(<a href="http://litreactor.com/about">About LitReactor</a>)


The site showcases essays in nearly two dozen categories (numbers of essays in parentheses, as of 2012.03.01):

Abstracts (1)
Character (15)
Cliche (2)
Dialogue (9)
Grammar (10)
Literary Devices (8)
Live Reading (3)
Narrator (7)
Objects (4)
POV (3)
Phrases (3)
Plot (18)
Poetry (1)
Research (9)
Rewriting (2)
Setting (1)
Similies (1)
Structure (14)
Theme (8)
Verbs (1)
Vocabulary (5)
Voice (16)
Word Play (2)
Workshop (2)

(<a href="http://litreactor.com/essays/categories">Craft Essays</a>)

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"Your philosophy of teaching statement should reflect your personal values and the needs of your students and your department. At the least, you will want to address four primary questions, usually in this order. / Menu /1. To what end?2. By what means?3. To what degree?4. Why?

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Fifth of five key strategies for revising academic writing

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Fourth of five key strategies for revising academic writing, moving from global to local revisions

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Third of five key strategies for revising academic writing

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2nd of five post in a series about revising academic writing

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Harrington suggests that plagiarism is endemic, and that originality reports from automated checking services enable writers to polish their work to make plagiarism difficult to detect. 

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One of many spelling, vocabulary, and writing resources on the Vocabulary and Spelling City site, this page explains, "Asking a child to write about something that matters to him [sic] right now is a powerful motivator. This is where writing prompts come in. Writing prompts are simply ideas or subjects offered as a foundation for students to build a writing assignment on" (¶3, 2011.07.25). It includes tips for preparing writing prompts as well as examples for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Thanks to Cara Whitehead (Learning with Computers) for pointing out this site.

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Does the tool Goldsmith reviewed (June 23rd, 2011) work as intended, i.e., <i>not</i> to detect plagiarism, or what? Goldsmith speculated about the "Bottom line?"

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"10 rules for clear, direct wording" of "business e-mail" messages

Here is "a <a href="http://www.uliveandlearn.com/userjoin.cfm">link</a> to the page where anyone interested ... can sign up" for direct mail notification of weekly tips from Always Learning (pab, <a href="http://blog.uliveandlearn.com/2011/06/business-writing-tips-checklist-for.html#comments">2011.06.17</a>)

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A National Writing Project Collection headed with the following tags:

critical visual literacy, image manipulation, images, media, photos, [and] provocations

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Flowchart for "Developing Research Questions and Proposal Preparation" (top level entry)

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Six major points "to keep in mind when formatting e-mail to make it as readable as possible" (para. 4).

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Thornbury asserts, "...[C]onversation stands for all the talk, the dialogue, the communication (both spoken and written) that is generated by the people in the room [or learning environment], and that is shaped, scaffolded, supported[,] and signposted by the teacher" (para. 10, retrievved 2011.05.21).

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Brooks, Kim. (2011). Death to high school English. Salon: Life: Topic: Education, 2011.05.10. Retrieved May 17, 2011.

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Resource "links for students to use" as they move from traditional reading, to critical reading, and on to critical literacy

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A social networking system for learners of various languages seeking correction of their writing by native speakers of those languages, in exchange, return, or pay-forward for correction they provide for peer learners of their own languages.

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